Joanne Schwartz was born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. She is the author of a number of children's books including Our Corner Grocery Store, which was nominated for the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award. Joanne has been a children's librarian for more than twenty-five years. She lives in Toronto.Sydney Smith is the winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration. He has illustrated multiple children’s books including Small In the City, winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal, I Talk Like a River and My Baba's Garden written by Jordan Scott, The White Cat and the Monk, written by Jo Ellen Bogart, and the highly acclaimed Footpath Flowers, which was a New York Times Children’s Book of the Year, a winner of the Governor General Award for Illustration and shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. Born in Nova Scotia in Canada, Sydney now lives in Toronto. Find him on Instagram as @sydneydraws.

An atmospheric, haunting story about a young boy whose father digs for coal beneath the sea.